Twistyle Muzik: Back Out Of The Shell

Recently, Vredenburg-based underground label, Twistyle Muzik released three solid kasi-flava heatseekers. With Lazy Catz, an enthusiastic duo consisting of Young Fl!p and General, their song Kasi Lam, became the second of Twistyle's three new singles. In addition to this, new voices such as Sai and Thando were featured in the listening experience, probing one to think how much more will Twistyle bring to the scene in 2014?

This lead to the follow up Ezphambeneyo, produced by label founder, Big Twist. One would think another Lazy Cat release is in store, but no, this track sees solely General taking the scene. With 124 downloads so far on DataFileHost, this song succeeds Kasi Lam which stands on 53 downloads.

But downloads are just numbers right? What really matters is the music and the reason for it.
According to Twistyle Muzik "Ezphambeneyo was just a track [for] fun, we got more of those coming up."

While the label's artists aim to reach their own level of recognition, the first track of the latest trilogy saw Big Twist make a return with Jacob Zuma. Released on May 7th, the 2014 IEC South African National Election Day, Twist expresses his views of what it must feel like being the president. Currently the song has been downloaded 163 times, a follow up from his previous release Somewhere In The World released in October last year.

He intends to release new music every Saturday, a first for Twistyle Muzik. This is said to take place in July and could be a worthy cause for increasing the label's support.


In addition to this, he mentions an upcoming mixtape in mind, to drop next year. Twist extends this thought with the mention of a new distribution deal with a Kimberly-based scheme entitled, Superstar Media Communications.

The label is cleverly planning ahead in excelling in more than just one music scene. The West Coast underground Hip-Hop community has seen various works from this label and one notable name is it's unique conscious and visionary artist, EM-K.

The label assures that what it has in store from EM-K will be promising. Recently, Twist rejoined Twitter under the handle "BigTwist_KBY". We trust that releases will be announced as this is another step to the label increasing its Social Networking usage.

• Follow Big Twist on Twitter (@BigTwist_KBY)

Cape Town Students Killer At Hip-Hop Theme Song

The city of Cape Town, one of South Africa's biggest music scenes, with a growing number of popular Hip-Hop acts, a continual flow of EDM and a vibrant night-life, has seen some of the nation's top acts start from the bottom and work their way, stage by stage to the top.



As remarkable as this is, a recent fresh sound was discovered on the 10th of May 2014 at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Open Day, an exhibition event introducing prospective students to the various courses on offer for their academic future.



Held at Bellville campus, one of these courses on display had a distinctive vibe around it, a sort of ambiance which seemed to excite those who passed by it. Known as Public Relations Management, a catchy brand name "InstaPR" was displayed instead in respect to their sleek theme and this accompanied a Hip-Hop song by three of the Cape's youngest artists. 

The track entitled as '#InstaPR2014 (Insta PR Song)' was downloaded more than 150 times on the very same day of premier. Louie B from Question Mark Movement, a rap group which made it's first big debut on the South Africa reality TV-show 'SA's Got Talent', collaborated with Tha Real U, a South-African-West-Coast based underground rapper from Shaloma Muzik. Additional vocals were provided by the Nambian-raised songstress Taffy Mwaza.

Their efforts in creating a song which could attract more-and-more future university students to study the course, proved to be useful. Their understanding of the course, the Public Relations field and university life, has made this record not only a popular hit with the students but is even said to be enjoyed by the dean of the course. 

So far the track has received mixed feedback, mainly positive, and is available on The SA Mark Hip-Hop music site, SwagCity and WapTrick.

Additional Links: 

• View Lyrics (RapGenius)
• Download 
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• Twitter: @InstaPR2014
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Top 5 Most Downloaded Fantasy Productions Songs

Official list of top five Most Downloaded Fantasy Productions releases at the moment, as of Wednesday, March 12, 00h00 (GMT+2).






5. Pretty Little Things
Ill Scripts
118 downloads in total






4. Light Up
Junio A!
146 downloads in total





3. Careless
Ill Scripts
226 downloads in total









2. Cast My Eyes
Ill Scripts
243 (Kasimp3) + 19 (Soundcloud) = 
262 downloads in total
might have been released pre-Fantasy Productions establishment yet incorporated for promotive purposes by the production scheme

1. Killed Twice
Ill Scripts
510 downloads in total


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TOTAL AMOUNT OF DOWNLOADS FOR FANTASY PRODUCTIONS:

1622 downloads

on Kasimp3, Soundcloud & Data File Host combined.

Apart from Fantasy Productions, Ill Script's debuted with their first release 'Ons Is Bevok' in 2012. With this song included in the total download statistics, the groups total is 1576 downloads (excluding the solo release).

Note: Only Soundcloud, Data File Host and Kasimp3 has been sourced for the above statistics. Other resource information has been excluded from the statistics reflected above due to irrelevance and unavailability of feasible data.

Jempas Now Part Of Ill Scripts

Remember that once odd beef between Ill Scripts and Shaloma? Well... who's to say it was even a beef right? Apparently it wasn't, nevertheless, two years later after the release of 'Lord Have Mercy' and 'Ons Is Bev*k' comes the newest shocker in the underground scene, the membership of Jempas to Ill Scripts.

While this might seem as just another interesting rumour, it's not. The surprise came not to long after the Fantasy Productions produced duo, Insane and Junio A, announced on their Twitter page their irrefutable success with their latest release 'Killed Twice' which currently stands on 499 downloads via Data File Host.

Less than 5 hours ago, it was thus made official, Jempas had joined Ill Scripts. Whilst the group for the past two years after the part-age of Ballergang had been stranded with two members, Jempas would thus form part of the duo making it a trio rap crew. This was verified by Shaloma Muzik management posting a word of good wishes as they gradually partways.

If one were to compare this to the likes of Destiny's Child or any other trio group, you'd probably agree that it what lies ahead indeed might be promising. While it seems like a first in the West Coast and is quite rare for male Hip-Hop acts, Jempas' position in Ill Scripts is secured placing him once again at the spotlight of the Saldanha Bay Hip-Hop scene.

As a solo artist Jempas reached various chart positions on KasiMp3 for his song 'Ransom', namely #3 on the Streets chart and #1 on Top Co-Signs. With this as debut, obtaining 93 downloads in 17 hours, second to Ill Scripts who held the record for 101 in the same time period, Jempas went on to reach 130+ downloads with in two to three days and later went on to seal another 100 with 'Take Me Away'.

With the shift between the two various production schemes happening this quick to be noticed, Jempas is yet to publicly respond. More likely the similarity of their content proved Jempas with the interest of joining what was once considered rivals. The only question left is what will happen to Shaloma as the brand has recently been underpresure trying to cater for it's target audience. Only time will tell...